Tag Archives: Mapnik

Last year, I wrote what was intended to be the first of a series of posts about Mapnik – a software toolkit for generating beautiful maps from various sets of spatial data. My intention had been to describe how to … Continue reading →

The default font family used for rendering text labels on maps created by Mapnik (and the one shipped with it) is Deja Vu. Deja Vu Sans Book is a pretty nice font, and can be seen, for example, in all … Continue reading →

In my last blog post, I explained a little about the process by which you can overlay raster data on Bing Maps, by geo-referencing the source data (if necessary), projecting into the appropriate spherical Mercator projection, then cutting the resulting … Continue reading →